Mount Olsen () is a snow-covered

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(635 m) standing 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) east of

Hayter Peak Hayter Peak () is a peak, 565 meters (1,850 ft) high, standing 400 meters west of Mount Olsen along the back of the Laurens Peninsula and at the northwest end of Heard Island. The peak was first surveyed in 1948 by the Australian National Antarct ...

Laurens Peninsula Laurens Peninsula () is a rugged peninsula surmounted by several ice-covered peaks that forms the northwestern part of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. The name was applied by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition followin ...

, in the northwest part of

Heard Island The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall land ...

. The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1860 sketch map compiled by Captain H.C. Chester, an American sealer operating in the area during this period. It was surveyed in 1948 by ANARE (

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australia: Antarctic Program#Australian Antarctic program, Australian Antarctic Program (AAP) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic D ...

), who named it after Bjarne Olsen,

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on the whale catcher ''Kidalkey'' which visited the island in January 1929. It is close to and north of the Gilchrist Aiguilles.

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Mountains of Heard Island and McDonald Islands {{Subantarctic-geo-stub